Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Women's Liberation bestowed its blessings upon "liberated women" who accomodated themselves to a masculine world, the sexual confusion took root. And this confusion filled the ballooning Sexual Revolution of 1969 with air. That dreamy easy sex we hoped to fashion from coed living was wrought into a cool undergraduate assumption: sex was there for the taking--that was understood. But an unconscious identification between sexes stalls the assertion of sexual differences. Instead, the spectre of sex, a nagging, hovering possibility, gave rise to a gossip that paralyzed. We missed our privacy. Our peers were all too close...
...been progress"-even though neither side had offered any new plans. Far livelier and franker discussions are likely to take place at the White House this week, when Mrs. Meir makes her annual shopping trip. In light of last week's events, the atmosphere may be rather cool...
Even so, Nixon may well have been acceding not only to Meany's wishes, but also to those of COLC Chairman John T. Dunlop. As head of a special Government council organized in 1971 to cool off wage inflation in the construction industry, Dunlop deliberately shunned any "one number" in reviewing pay settlements, arguing that equity varies widely from contract to contract. Dunlop's success with that philosophy was impressive: average construction wage hikes dropped from a ruinous 18% annually in 1970 to a moderate 5.7% last year...
...sabotage as a sales tactic-and had said so at two sales meetings. Copico also pointed out that SCM has been caught and assessed $150,000 in an earlier sabotage case. This time the jury decided to stiffen the penalty: it awarded $20,000 in compensatory damages and a cool $1,000,000 in punitive damages, the largest monetary punishment ever for commercial sabotage. "They wanted to give us $5,000,000," said Lawyer John Mc-Guinn last week after checking with jurors. "But I'm glad they didn't. SCM will appeal, and I think this judgment...
...Cool, cool Byzantia, Mrs. Weldon decides, "is a destroyer" in a generation created to destroy forever a certain sort of female image. A bit melodramatic, even scifi, perhaps. Yet beside Fay Weldon, all the Germaine Greers, all the Kate Milletts, all the non-fictionists of Women's Liberation pale into abstract theory...